上周末，阿富汗总统逃离该国，塔利班控制了喀布尔的总统府，混乱笼罩了喀布尔，几乎结束了美国20年的竞选活动，这场运动始于塔利班统治时期。
如同危机加剧了，用来自喀布尔的图片图为美国控制机场后，阿富汗人冲进机场停机坪，爬上军用飞机，美国总统乔·拜登缩短了在戴维营的时间，返回白宫向全国发表讲话星期一下午。
五角大楼表示，随着军方竞相从日益混乱的喀布尔撤离外交官和平民，6000名美军将很快抵达该国首都。尽管受到批评，拜登政府还是坚持自己的决定在8月31日前从该国撤军，结束美国持续时间最长的战争。
8月16日，晚上8:11
喀布尔机场成千上万的人围住了C-17航班的细节
在一段戏剧性的视频中，数百名阿富汗平民包围了一架在喀布尔机场跑道上滑行的美国C-17军用运输机。
一名美国国防部官员说，这些人不是特殊签证申请人，而是从机场平民一侧突破跑道的人。
据这位官员称，这架C-17已经带着货物着陆，当着陆人员试图卸货时，数百名阿富汗平民冲了过来。空勤人员认为卸货不安全，开始滑行飞往安全地带。
视频显示，数百人与一架美国空军C-17运输机并肩运行，这架飞机在喀布尔机场的跑道上运行。https://t.co/9KvlpGgLnMpic.twitter.com/osGnDQX9rb
—美国广播公司新闻(@美国广播公司)2021年8月16日
8月16日，晚上7:16
与塔利班的会谈“富有建设性”，但美国仍在评估
尽管美国驻喀布尔大使馆没有美国人，但美国国务院发言人内德·普莱斯表示，美国将保持在首都的外交存在，“只要我们这样做是安全和负责任的。”
他还说，美国和塔利班仍在保持联系，特别是通过美国特使扎勒迈·哈利勒扎德，他仍在塔利班政治领导层所在的卡塔尔多哈。
他上周支持外交谈判的任务变成了一项紧急任务——“避免暴力，试图维持喀布尔的秩序，非常非常重要的是，保证塔利班不会试图威胁我们的人民或我们的行动”——证实美国官员要求塔利班在撤退时不要发动攻击。
像五角大楼一样，普莱斯不会说如果与塔利班达成协议，他们不会攻击美国的撤离努力，但他说一些会谈是“建设性的”，他们将监督他们的行动，而不是他们的言论。
8月16日下午6:35
尽可能安全地继续疏散:国务院
喀布尔机场的疏散仍在继续，美国国务院发言人内德·普莱斯周一表示，只要机场的公务员“安全无虞”，这些努力就会继续下去
普莱斯说:“我们将进行雄心勃勃、积极进取和昼夜不停的努力，尽可能多地搬迁。
根据普莱斯的说法，美国已经通过紧急疏散航班从喀布尔疏散了1600人。虽然这包括美国人员、普通公民和一些阿富汗人，但他不会提供细目。
五角大楼周一早些时候宣布，美国国务院已经要求向美国境内多达22000名阿富汗人和海外8000名阿富汗人提供支持，但普莱斯只说美国将继续提供支持疏散阿富汗人只要这样做是安全的。
普莱斯说，撤离将优先考虑美国人员和公民，但也将包括阿富汗翻译和申请特殊移民签证的家庭，那些有资格获得P1或P2难民身份的人——为美国非政府组织、媒体机构、美国资助的项目工作——以及被认为“脆弱”的阿富汗人，“因为他们所做的工作，有些是因为他们所说的话，有些只是因为他们的性别，”普莱斯说。
8月16日下午6:26
佩洛西称赞拜登的“强有力的领导”和“非凡的专注”
众议院议长南希·佩洛西周一在华盛顿发表声明总统的支持，赞扬他在结束美国对阿富汗的军事介入方面的“强有力的领导”和“非凡的专注”。
她说:“他这样做是为了确保美国人和我们的阿富汗伙伴尽快到达安全地带，并继续专注于反恐努力，以保护美国在国内外的利益。”。
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佩洛西还呼吁美国和国际社会保护阿富汗人民，特别是“面临最大风险”的妇女和女孩
她在声明中说:“塔利班必须知道，全世界都在注视着他们，不会容忍他们对妇女和女孩的野蛮对待。
Afghanistan updates: US resumes air operations at Kabul airport
Chaos has enveloped Kabul after Afghanistan's president fled the country over the weekend and the Taliban seized control of the presidential palace there, all but ending America's 20-year campaign as it began: under Taliban rule.
Asthe crisis intensifies, withimages from Kabulshowing Afghans storming the airport tarmac and climbing onto military planes after the U.S. assumed control of the airport, President Joe Biden cut his time at Camp David short and headed back to the White Houseto address the nationMonday afternoon.
The Pentagon said that 6,000 U.S. troops would soon be in the country's capital as the military races to evacuate diplomats and civilians from an increasingly chaotic Kabul. Despite criticism, the Biden administration issticking by its decisionto withdraw troops from the country by Aug. 31, ending America's longest war.
Aug 16, 8:11 pm
Details about C-17 flight mobbed by thousands at Kabul airport
In a dramatic video, hundreds of Afghan civilians surrounded a U.S. C-17 military transport aircraft as it taxied on the runway at Kabul’s airport.
A U.S. defense official said these were not special visa applicants, but people who had breached the runway from the civilian side of the airport.
According to the official, the C-17 had landed with cargo and as the landing crew attempted to unload, it was rushed by hundreds of Afghan civilians. The aircrew decided it was not safe to unload and began taxiing to fly away to safety.
Video shows hundreds of people running alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the Kabul airport.https://t.co/9KvlpGgLnMpic.twitter.com/osGnDQX9rb
— ABC News (@ABC)August 16, 2021
Aug 16, 7:16 pm
Talks with Taliban ‘constructive,’ but US still taking stock
While there is no American presence at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, State Department spokesman Ned Price said the U.S. will maintain its diplomatic presence in the capital city "for as long as it is safe and responsible for us to do so."
He also said that the U.S. and the Taliban remain in contact, especially through U.S. envoy ZalmayKhalilzad who is still in Doha, Qatar, where Taliban political leadership is based.
His mission to support diplomatic talks last week turned into an urgent mission -- "to avertviolence, to attempt to maintain order in Kabul, andvery, very importantly, to guarantee that the Taliban would not seek tothreaten our people or our operations" -- confirming that U.S. officials were asking the Taliban not to attack as they retreated.
Like the Pentagon, Pricewouldn't say if there's an agreement with the Talibanthat they won't attack the U.S. evacuation efforts -- but he said sometalks had been "constructive,"and that they'll monitor their actions, not their words.
Aug 16, 6:35 pm
Evacuations to continue as long as safely possible: State Department
Evacuations continue at the Kabul airport and State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Monday that those efforts will continue as long as those public servants at the airport are "safe and secure."
"We will be engaged in an ambitious, aggressive and around-the-clock effort torelocate as many as we possibly can," Price said.
The U.S. has evacuated 1,600 people from Kabul on emergency evacuation flights, according to Price. While that includes American personnel, private citizens and some Afghans, he would not provide a breakdown.
The Pentagon announced earlier Monday that the State Department had requested support for up to 22,000 Afghans in the United States and 8,000 overseas, but Pricewould say only that the U.S. will continue toevacuate Afghansas long as it was safe to do so.
Evacuations will prioritize U.S. personnel and citizens, Price said, but will also include Afghan interpreters and families who've applied for Special Immigrant Visas, those who qualify for P1 or P2 refugee status — working for U.S. NGOs, media outlets, U.S.-funded projects -- and Afghansdeemed "vulnerable," "for the work they have done, some for the things they have said, some for nothing more than their gender," Price said.
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Aug 16, 6:26 pm
Pelosi commends Biden's 'strong leadership' and 'exceptional focus'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement Monday insupport of the president, commending him for his "strong leadership" and "exceptional focus" in bringing the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan to an end.
"He does so ensuring that Americans and our Afghan partners make it to safety as soon as possible and with a continuing laser focus on counterterrorism efforts to protect U.S. interests at home and abroad," she said.
Pelosi also called on the U.S. and the international community to protect the people of Afghanistan, especially the women and girls, "who are at the greatest risk."
"The Taliban must know that the world is watching and will not tolerate its brutal treatment of women and girls," she said in the statement.
